I think everyone is sort of over analyzing the RTP situation. After the hiring freeze and sudden increase in attrition as the majors started hiring a lot of people, Compass got tremendously short of FOs. They instituted the bonus and even allowed RTP people to borrow against their anticipated bonus. By these means, the company largely made up the backlog and - if what the APC profile is showing for pilot numbers is true - will be fully staffed once everybody currently in training is done with IOE.

Now that doesn't mean hiring will stop - there is still continuing attrition as people move to other jobs - but the backlog that required the larger numbers (which were a challenge for instructor and sim availability) has been largely alleviated.

That being the case, the company is again cutting back class sizes and bonus amounts.